COMMENTERS: What goes in your cultural time capsule? Please chose 3 movies (1 comedy, 1 drama, 1 dumb action), 3 TV series (1 drama, 1 comedy and 1 British), 3 music albums (1 you love now, 1 you loved when you were younger, 1 you are uncertain as to why you ever loved because it’s truly terrible), and feel free to toss in some books or whatever.

Movies: Life of Brian, Big Fish, True Lies
TV: Luther (though I would also accept Sherlock), The Daily Show, Doctor Who
Music: Last of the Great Pretenders (Matt Nathanson), Ride the Lighting (Metallica), Issues (Korn)
Books: The Name of the Wind (reading it now and loving it), The Phantom Tollbooth, Where the WIld Things Are (with the Blu-ray – i dont care if it’s cheating)

Music albums: Florence and The Machine: Between Two Lungs, Four Non Blondes: Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, and (I can’t believe I once liked this crap) Backstreet Boys: Backstreet’s Back.
(Disclaimer: I don’t buy/listen to a lot of albums, I just have an eclectic collection of songs from all ages on permanent shuffle.)

TV: Does MASH count as Drama? if so, I’ll say MASH for the Drama and Gilligan’s Island for Comedy…British is a tough one but I think I’m going to have to go with Monty Python’s Flying Circus (runners up for British include Blackadder, Black Books, QI, Green Wing, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Spaced, Jeeves and Wooster, The Catherine Tate Show and A Bit of Fry and Laurie)

Books: (since you didn’t give us categories I’ll make them up) Comedy: The Myth-Adventures of Skeeve and Aahz series by Robert Lynn Asprin, Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Science Fiction: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Movies: Young Frankenstein, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (just Two Towers if only one is allowed), DOOM
TV: Any/ All of Joss Whedon’s shows (or Battlestar Galactica), Adventure Time, Trigger Happy TV
Music: Blackwater Park (Opeth) (alternatively any Dream Theater album), Poodle Hat (Weird Al), whichever Das Racist CD has “PIzza Hut and Taco Bell” on it.
Misc: Some Terry Pratchett, D@D rulebooks, and A Song of Ice and Fire (even the not yet written ones)

Movies: Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Die Hard
TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, How I Met Your Mother, Doctor Who
Music: Metallica–Death Magnetic (now), GnR–Appetite for Destruction (then), The Civil Wars–Barton Hollow (why?)
Books: The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, all Stephen King, The Theory of Everything by Stephen Hawking (surprise!)
Misc.: The complete Calvin & Hobbs, DVD copies of a handful of Broadway musicals, a complete set of 12″ Army of Darkness action figures

Movies: Monty Python and The Holy Grail, The Third Man and Predator.
TV: The Wire, The Venture Bros. and Fawlty Towers
Music: The National – Trouble Will Find Me; Rush – Moving Pictures, something by the Bee Gees

Films: Some Like It Hot, because nobody’s perfect. Kiss Me Deadly, What’s in the box? And dumb action film, Die hard 4.0 because we’ve all aged with John
Tv shows: as aBrit they will all be British so comedy; Ab Fab sweetie, drama; Dr Who of course, and finally The Avengers, the Honor Blackman years.
Music: Elephant by the White Stripes, the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and The Kinks Collected singles
Books: Right Ho Jeeves, the Lord of The Rings, and the complete Sherlock Holmes stories

Hmm. Hey–uh, Joel? I’ve only just finished catching up on your webcomic. I’ve been pretty busy but I’ve spent every free minute for the past two weeks learning the ways of the Fancy Bastard. I gotta wonder, though, did something really bad happen that I missed? This was a really popular comic with a sizable following–maybe not as big as Willis or Corsetto, but big and cheerfully active. Somewhere around April of this year, the number of comments dropped considerably. This particular comic has been out for over a week, and mine is the first comment. WTF?

Also, I miss the photo comics. I thought the complainers were dead wrong on that score. In jokes or not, they were funny and provided genuine insight into webcomic artists’ mindsets.

2 Comments

Chaucer59
on July 6, 2013 at 8:59 pm

Hmm. Hey–uh, Joel? I’ve only just finished catching up on your webcomic. I’ve been pretty busy but I’ve spent every free minute for the past two weeks learning the ways of the Fancy Bastard. I gotta wonder, though, did something really bad happen that I missed? This was a really popular comic with a sizable following–maybe not as big as Willis or Corsetto, but big and cheerfully active. Somewhere around April of this year, the number of comments dropped considerably. This particular comic has been out for over a week, and mine is the first comment. WTF?

Also, I miss the photo comics. I thought the complainers were dead wrong on that score. In jokes or not, they were funny and provided genuine insight into webcomic artists’ mindsets.

The Ref, Serenity, Lethal Weapon 4 (drive thru – need I say more?)
Doctor Who (all of it), Coupling (British version), Sherlock (Cumberbatch), can I also have all the Star Trek series if I give up the music?